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fo) in MM LTQ m WD dycafto Legislation Being Prepared for ' State Districts Areas Would Be Formed as Needed Salem-OIPB-The Joint House and Senate Committees on Education took their first overall look at post -high school education in Oregon at a well-attended hearing here Monday night. Sen. Monroe Sweetland (D-Milwaukie) said that he and Rep. J. Pat Metke (R-Bend) were preparing legislation that would divide the state up into 15 districts Where two years of post high school education, chiefly vocational and techni cal, could be provided. Follow Flesher Lines The proposal of the two leg islators will be along lines sug gested by Dr. William Flesher in his report on vocational and technical education in Oregon, except that Flesher recom mended only seven districts. The educational districts would be formed by an elec tion of local people as need ed. They would be financed equally by the state or feder al government, the education center district and student tu ition. Not Compulsory Sweetland said he thought such districts, which would not be compulsory, would op erate at only a fraction of the cost to students of living away from home at a college or uni versity. Dr. Paul F. Wilneth, presi dent of the Oregon Vocational association, told the joint com mittee he agreed ,with the Flesher report findings on the need for more technical and vocational education in Ore gon. v Dr. O. I. Paulson, state di rector of vocational education explained the Flesher report to the group in outline. Scanlon Maples Planted in City The first nlantines of Scan lon maple were made last week end around the St. Mary's school in Medford, Street tree planting program. St. Mary's thus began a series of plantings to relana rane the area around the school. Eight of the trees were planted on Holly St., nt.vt in the school. The Scan lon, a tree developed espec ially for streets, is the tree selected for all of Holly ana Grape sts. More trees will be planted this week end, according to Bill Dugan, coordinator for h school. Eight Thunder Cloud Flowering plum will go in on 11th st. next to me rhool. and the Modesto Ash will go in on 12th st. from Ivy to Holly sts. The liower is the tree selected "& 1"-- : . , for 11th st. from Oakdale to Central aves. The Modesto. Ash is picked from Oakdale to Fir. Money to plant the trees at St. Mary's was raised part ly by Girl Scout Troop 181 and Cub Pack 1. The Girl Scouts had a baked food sale to raise S25 for trees, accord ing to Mrs. Quenten Lewis, Mrs. Florian Shas- ky, assistant leader. Vincent Nicoletti reported the Cubs raised their portion oi me monies through various proj ects during the year. Budget Cut Forced Curb, Space Committee Hears Washington -4UPD- Lt. Gen. Samuel E. Anderson, chief of Air Force research and development, said today he had to curtail needed pro grams because of deep ad ministration cuts in his budget. He told the House Space Committee his request for $1,287,000,000 i n research funds was chopped to $753 million before the President's budget was submitted to Con gress. He said the budgeted amount was about $3 million les than provided for the current fiscal year. 'Well, That Takes Consolidation Seen As Possible Action By Griffin Griffin Creek school dis trict officials indicated last night they are ready to-, start proceedings toward consolida tion with the Medford school district prior to July 1, 1959, Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield, su perintendent of Medford schools, reported today. The statement was made at a' meeting of Medford school district officials with repre- Hearing Set for Central Point Man Preliminary hearing for Lester Lee Lewis, 66, Route 2 box 671, Central Point, was set for Feb. 11 at 1:30 p.m. by District Judge Roy Bash aw Monday afternoon. ' Lewis, who was arrested Friday by state and Medford police on a warrant charging procuring a female to engage in prostitution, appeared in court Friday and requested an attorney. He was repre sented yesterday by O. H. Bengtson, local attorney. - He is being held in county jail on $1,500 cash bail or $2,000 property bond. The or iginal amount of $5,000 was lowered by the court follow ing a recommendation by both attorneys. Lewis was arrested follow ing an investigation by state and city police which includ ed obtaining statements from three local women who stat ed that Lewis had approach ed them in a local restaurant. Lewis admitted in a signed statement following his ar rest that he had taken three of the females to a restaurant in Jackson county where they had relations with employees there and were paid. He told police that he had received a portion of the proceeds. DOW -JONES AVERAGES New York-OJPD-Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 92.34, up 0.11; 20 railroads 162.33, up 0.76; 15 utilities 91.20, up 0.48. and 65 stocks 205.61, up 0.44. Sales today were about 3,220,000 shares compared with 3,610,000 shares Mon day. Anderson, flanked by mod els of the Atlas and Thor missiles, was asked if he could have put more money to profitable use had he got ten it. He replied that it was his opinion that he could, but he backed away from saying flatly that additional funds would speed up the U. S. space program. Must Move Rapidly Gen. Thomas D. White, Air Force chief of ctaff, told the committee that the United States "Must move at an ex tremely rapid pace" if it is to meet Russia's space age challenge. School Aired Care Of That" Creek sentatives of Griffin Creek, Ruch and Applegate and Glenn Smith, member of both the Jackson county rural school board and the Jackson county school reorganization committee. Howard school district has indicated already it is ready to start consolidation preceed- mgs toward uniting with Medford, Dr. Mayfield said. Remainder of Districts The remainder of the school districts involved in possible consolidation with Medfod have indicated plans of hold ing public meetings in their areas before reaching a decis ion. The six districts are Grif fin Creek, Ruch, Applegate, Jacksonville, Howard, Lone Pine and Phoenix. Phoenix school district held its public meeting last night to explain issues involved in consolidation or reorginiza- tion. Ballots have been mailed to all residents of the school dis trict, Ernest James, Phoenix school district superintendent, said. He expects to have most of them in by this week end and counted possibly by Mon day, he said. Phoenix school district has the alternative of either con solidating with Medford or Talent. Talent's alternative would be to consolidate with Wagner creek and Ashland. Curriculum Review Scheduled Tonight Another in a series of Med ford public schools' curricu lum review will be held at a public meeting in the Medford High school science room at 7:30 pjn. today, according to Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield, Medford school district super intendent. Tonight's program will be a review of the science " pro gram in the Medford schools and how good a job Medford is doing in this area, Dr. May field said. The review will be based on recommendations made by Dr. James B. Con ant, president " emeritus of Harvard university, who com pleted a study of representa tive high schools in the United States recently. The meeting is being held in cooperation with the local Parent Teacher association, national and state school boards' associations and the national and state PTA and educational associations. Oregon Navy Airman Killed in Accident San Diego, Calif. -flJPp- An Oregon Navy airman was killed Monday nieht when a canopy blew off an A4D Sky- nawk jet fighter in which he was working. at the Miramir naval air station. The victim was Charle Ray Nixon, son of Mrs. Brigette Nixon, Cherry Grove. Portland -(DPD The Oregon Centennial Commission has voted to hire William Garren stroon as its fiscal officer. American Held As Suspect in Castro Death Plot Ex-Military Flier Held Since Dec. 26 Havana (UPD - Edward A. Nye, 31, of Chicage and Coral Gables, Fla., has been held for more than a month as the sus pected triggerman in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro, it was reported today. Police said the rebels who seized Nye in eastern Cuba Dec. 26-five days before ex- President Fulgencio Batista fell-reported that he had a rifle with a telescopic sight and a pistol in his posession at the time. Charges Not Told Nye, who is being held at a police station here, told UPI that he never has heard what charges have been filed against him-if any. He denied complicity in any murder plot. "It's all a big mistake," he said. "I came to Cuba to join Castro, not to kill him." Nye, , who was a military flier during World War II, said he came to Cuba to offer Castro the benefit of his ex perience. He said he was look ing for Castro when the rebels seized him in Santa Rita. Reason for Suspicion Police Lt. Jose M. Fernan dez Roa said, however, that the police "have reason to sus pect" that Nye was paid $10 000 by unidentified persons to infiltrate rebel ranks and shoot Castro. . Fernandez said Nye enter ed Cuba "clandestinely" by small plane a week before Ba tista's overthrow. I No one would comment of ficially on tthe precise nature of the charges against Nye. The U.S. Embassy says it has been informed that the Amer ican is being held on "crimin al charges," but would give no details. Butte Falls Man Killed in Tractor Accident Monday Harold Lee Parker, 41, of Butte Falls Star route, was killed in a tractor accident yesterday afternoon about six miles up the Butte Falls high way, Sgt. Dean DeBerry, of the Jackson county sheriff's office, reported. The accident occurred on the Parker ranch between 4 and 5 p.m., DeBerry said. Medford Ambulance service was called to the accident scene and found Parker's body under the right rear wheel and in front of the grader blade of the t ractor. The tractor had stopped, probably after running into a bank and was leaning slight ly to the right on a side hill, it was reported. Parker apparently was grading a road at the time. The body is being sent by Conger-Morris Funeral home to Chowchilla, Calif., for ser vices and burial. Parker was born on July 31, 1917, in Oklahoma. On Jan. 4, 1939 in Reno, Nev., he was married . to Mildred Duncan, who survives. Also surviving are two sons, Chris topher Lee Parker and Har old Robert Parker, both at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Parker, Chowchilla, Calif.; two brothers, Sterling L. and James H. Parker, Chowchilla; and a sister, Mrs. Jack Weaver, Madera, Calif. Construction Date For Stockade Set Construction of a stockade as a tourist information cen ter on Siskiyou summit will start about March 1, accord ing to Ernie Hood, Jackson county coordinator for the Oregon Centennial celebra tion. Hood told the Ashland Cen tennial committee last night that gravel will be spread on the site prior to March 1 and that it is' hoped to have the work completed by the first of May and the stockade in operation by May 15. The stockade will be staf fed by both adults and stu dents 12 hours a day from May 15 through Sept. 15, he said. Literature from five southern Oregon counties and all the cities in Jackson coun ty will be made available to tourists, Hood said. , 53rd Year Medford 14 Pages L so 'Has Favorable Former DeArmond Brothers Company Being Remodeled Expansion Planned By New Owners Rogue River - Remodeling and expansion of the former DeArmond Brothers Lumber' company is expected to get underway this week new own ers of the firm have an nounced. The mill, now known as Crater Plywood Inc., was pur chased recently by seven Med ford and Grants Pass lumber men. The company will manu facture green plywood and studding. President and general man ager of the new firm is R. E. Nealy, Grants Pass lumber man. Other officers include H. R. -Blacketor, vice presi dent, Grants Pass; LeRoy White, secretary, Medford; and Loyd F. Silva, treasurer, Grants, Pass. Other members of the board of directors are Duane Nealy, son of the presi dent; William R. Barrett, Grants Pass, and B. D. Mitch ell, Medford. . . With Kogap White has been associated with the plywood division" of Kogap Lumber Industries, Medford, while Mitchell was with Mitchell Brothers Truck Lines. Both R. E. and Duane Nealy have operated the Nealy Log ging company while Blacketor was associated with Custom Plywood Inc., it was reported. Silva was in charge of Silva Logging company and Bar rett was head of Barrett and Company, a lumber firm. Remodeling of the Rogue River plant is expected to be finished by April 15 and to cost more than $150,000, it was reported. New construc tion will include a 60 by 100 foot addition to the present building.. Although the firm will con tinue manufacturing studding. It was reported that produc tion would be greatly re duced. Main operation will be the making of green veneer. During the change-over the firm has been closed. Employment Figure An estimated 20 men will be employed on each of two shifts in the veneer plant and about 15 in 'the stud mill. All of the employees are expected to be hired locally. White will be plant superintendent. Former owners of the mill, Robert J. DeArmond, and his brother, Richard J., also own a stud mill in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. A partner, Bill Joyner, formerly of Grants Pass, is currently operating the mill there. Robert and Richard DeArmond stated that "they may move to Idaho." They re ported that their father, D. E. DeArmond, who owned part of the Rogue River op eration, will remain in Med ford. Public Outcry Urged Against Spending Plans Washington -flJPD- President Eisenhower and his congres sional chieftains joined today in urging a public outcry against big spending plans of the Democratic - controlled Congress. WEATHER FORECAST: Generally cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Not so cold tonight. Low 32. High Wednesday 55-58. Temp. Highest Yesterday 55 Lowest this Morning 2J Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:2T p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:23 a.m. The Moon rses 4:42 a-m. tomorrow and rides low in the constellation, Sagittarius, near the planet, Saturn. New Moon Feb. 7 BRIGHTEST CONSTELLATION Orion, in the southeast in the evening twilight, will be high In south 8:52 p.m. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1959 Three Etock V Cfcll Stars EDie in Crash Mason City, Iowa-diPfl-Three stars of a rock 'n' roll troupe, including Ritchie Valens, 17, an Elvis Presley style singer, and a pilot were killed early today in a plane crash. The other victims were Buddy Holly, another top singer in the teen-age tradition, and J. P. Richardson, known profes sionally as "The Big Bopper," and Roger Peterson, 21, Clear Lake, Iowa, the pilot. The (plane crashed into a snowy farm field about five miles north of nearby Clear Lake shortly after it took off for Fargo, N.D., early today. At Hollywood, Valens' manager. Bob Keene, described the teen-ager as "the hottest singer in the country." "Everybody was saying he was the next Presley," Keene said. The three chartered the plane from a flying service and hired Peterson to fly them to Fargo for an appearance there. Porter to Push for Completion of Basin Survey by Engineers Congressman Charles O. Gen. J. L. Person, USA, assist- Porter will continue to push for completion of the Rogue River basin flood control sur vey in time to have the basin project included in the omni bus public works act for the 86th congress, he said this week. . .' - "You will note that the situation appears very dark at this time for rapid action in connection with the sur very," he wrote in a letter to the Mail Tribune. A public hearing previous ly scheduled for September, 1958, in southern Oregon was Bill Jess, president of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Resources asso ciation, said today he and officials of the orginization will meet at 8 p m next Monday in the Josephine county courthouse with rep resentatives of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service to dis cuss their studies of the Ro gue basin. Those representing the service will Include J. T. Barnaby, chief of lhte divi sion of sports fisheries; T. S. Roberts, regional super visor of the branch of river basin studies and George O. Black, fisheries research bi ologist for the river basin studies branch. The meeting was arrang ed by Leo Laythe, regional director of tthe bureau of sports fisheries and wildlife, Jess said, and culminates several months of attempts to obtain such a meeting to discuss problems of the Rogue Basin. delayed. The Corps of Army Engineers had first informed Porter that the hearing would be held in Febraury, 1959, then not until September of this year. Report Not Complete "The indication is that this delay is occasioned by the fact the report cannot be com pleted until July 1 because of a delay in compilation of Fish and Wildlife Service data needed by the engineers," Porter wrote. Two major factors are re sponsible for the delay, ac cording to a letter from Brig. Deadline Nearing For Tax Exemptions Salem (UPD Disabled war veterans and widows of vet erans must apply for their Oregon property tax' exemp tions by April 1, Vere A. Mc Carty, service division man ager for the Oregon Depart ment of.. Veterans' Affairs, warned today. Applications for the tax exemption, which amounts to $7,500 or the true cash value of the property, must be filed with the county assessor on or before April 1 of each year, McCarthy said. i Picketing ant chief of engineers for civil works, First factor is the prelimi nary finding that projects al ternative to Lewis Creek res ervoir on Rogue river and the Ruch reservoir on Applegate river might be both economi cally feasible and competitive from a cost standpoint, Briga dier General Person wrote. Second Factor A second factor in the delay was enactment on Aug. 12, 1958, of the revised fish and wildlife coordination act, he wrote. Under this act the Fish and Wildlife Service is re quired to evaluate potential project affects on fish and wildlife with special emphasis on possible project features and plans of operation to en hance these resources. Previ ously, the corps was responsi ble only for a study of the affect of such a project on fish. The corps recently became aware of the affects of the act and is probably responsible for the delay from February, 1959, to Sept. 1, 1959, Bill Jess, Eagle Point, president of the Rogue River Flood Con- j trol and Water Resources; committee, explained. Now natural stream flow conditions and further proj ect evaluation must be done, the letter from the engineers' official stated. A third factor given by the engineers is the request of "local interests" for a period of at least 60 days in advance of the final public hearing in which to consider the project data. Jess said the full 60 days would not be needed if the information on the survey is made available as the engin eers obtain it. Means of Reducing Dog, Cat Populace Being Considered by Humane Society One means of reducing the excessive dog and cat popula tion in this area is currently being considered by officials of the Southern Oregon Hu mane society. Its basis would be a founda tion, supported by voluntary contributions, for spaying fe males to prevent unwanted litters. "We haven't spelled out yet exactly what the foundation would do," Andrew Hawver, society president, said yester day. He told the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce roundtable, it would be "strictly for spaying." Agree on Facilities Hawver and William Herr ing, the society's enforcement officer, agreed that facilities at 2902 Table Rock rd. could relieve the Jackson county pound to some extent at least of its present burden. More than half the dogs en tering the pound, or about 150 a month, are brought by own ers unwilling or unable to care for them, according to Price 1 0 Cents Tribune No. 271 Rein Bill Scheduled For Final Vole in Senate Tomorrow No Indiscriminate Picketing Promised Salem -flJPD- A committee report favoring . repeal of Oregon's 1953 anti-picketing law was adopted by the Ore gon Senate today. The repeal bill will then be up for final vote in the Senate Wednes day. Senate action on the meas ure was made possible by a five to two vote of the Senate Committee on Labor and In dustries Monday 4o recom mend the bill out "do pass." The law prohibits organi zational picketing and pro vides for elections to be held by a labor examiner. The law has been opposed by organ ized labor. Labor Official Learns No indiscriminate picketing would follow repeal of the act, James Marr, executive secretary of the Oregon AFL CIO, said after the committee vote had been taken. "I have learned a great deal from the hearings on this issue," Marr stated, "and I feel confession is good for the soul. There have been cases where pickets could have been pulled off much sooner than they were in the past. I want to assure this committee that repeal of this act will not result in a rash of establishments in the state. Voting for repeal in com mittee were Sen. R. F. Chap man (D-Coos Bay); Boyd Ov erhulse (D - Madras); Carl Francis (R-Eugene); and Dan Dimick (D-Roseburg), chair man. Leth, White Oppose Motion The two senators who vot ed against the motion to kill the law were Walter Leth (R-West Salem) and "Robert F. White (R-Salem). White asked if there were any bills in prospect that would affect this law and was told by Dimick that he knew of none except a possi ble resolution setting up a study committee to deter mine if there should me a management labor code in Oregon statutes. The anti-picketing law, in the opinion of Leth, doesn't do a great many things some people fear, but does offer protection to firms engaged in intra-state business. Other major business saw Gov. Mark Hatfield sign the centennial appropriation bill providing $1,794,000 for Ore gon't 100th birthday celebra tion. Chris Hagler, county dog con trol officer. Only a few of these owners actually want their dogs destroyed. Herring said that while the humane society is limited in its ability to seek new homes for animals brought to its of fice, it can destroy painlessly with carbon monoxide gas. He said the society's facilities are not as crowded as the pound, and could accommodate those dogs owners want killed. Plans Announced Meanwhile, the Jackson county court has reportedly announced plans for construct ing a portable lethal chamber to permit painless mass kill ings at the pound with carbon monoxide. The chamber will be pro vided "as soon as possible," it is understood. Herring also suggested that owners bring puppies or kit tens they cannot care for to the humane society for dis posal rather than allowing them to roam at large. He said that 90 per cent of the homeless dog popula lit U 'Strong Protests' Fail To Secure Soldiers' Release Stoppage Seen To Create Incident Berlin (DPD Armed Soviet guards today held a U.S. Army truck convoy and fiv American soldiers at a check point on the East-West Ger man border in spite of two U.S. demands for their imme diate release. The U.S. Army said a four- truck convoy was halted by Soviet guards at the Marien born checkpoint at 1:05 p.m. Monday (4:Q5 a.m. p.s.t.) Ma rienborn is in East Germany, at the western end of the 110 mile Autobahn from West Berlin. U. S. Army sources de nounced the stoppage as ille gal and designed to create an incident. It emphasized the stranglehold the Communists have on isolated Berlin's life lines to the west. Deliver 'Strong Protest The convoy, carrying jeeps, cleared the Russian Babels berg checkpoint just outside of Berlin without incident. It made the run to Marienborn only to be halted there as it was about to cross into West Germany. Maj. Gen. Barksdale Ham- lett,. U. S. commandant in Berlin, in a telephone call to Soviet headquarters in East Berlin made what was de scribed as a "strong protest." U.S. Army headquarters in Europe at Heidelberg also sent a protest to Soviet army headquarters. Both protests demanded the immediate release of the trucks and their personnel. American officials believed the Soviets hoped to create an incident to underline their contention that a war could break out unless the West gets out of Berlin. Observers believed also that the Communists wanted to stress the vulnerability of the Allied lifelines to pres sure, particularly when the Soviets transfer control of Allied traffic to the East Ger man Communists. The four 2V4 ton trucks were held up when the So viets insisted on boarding and searching them, an Army spokesman said. The backs of the trucks were open and the Soviet guards could see the trucks were carrying jeeps to West Germany for repairs, he said. The tops and windshields of the jeeps were down: But the Soviets wanted to climb into the trucks and examine the jeeps, the spokesman said. The non-commissioned offi cer in charge of the convoy rejected this request and the convoy was refused passage. The U.S. maintains the So viets do not have the right to board vehicles to inspect them. Pan American Nears End of Strike Vote New York-(UPD-About 8,000 Pan American World Air ways employees are expected to complete by the end of this week a vote on whether to empower union officials to call a strike, a union spokes man said today. . Salem-UPD-Rep. Fred Meek (R-Portland) said he is work ing on a sales tax bill which would put a 3 per cent tax on retail sales. tion starves to death, or is run over, poisoned or shot, or ends up at the humane society or the pound for disposal. In connection with the pro posed foundation, Hawver said it would be a policy that fe male dogs turned over by the society or the pound to new homes, unless they were valu able purebreds, should be spayed. He mentioned as one pos sibility that the foundation might provide 50 per cent of the spaying cost for dogs un der its control. Reduced Fees He also said veterinarians might charge reduced fees for operations financed in this way. "If we could start a spay ing campaign now," he said, "with the continuous efforts of the dog control board and the humane society in a cou ple of years we would see' results." The success of the founda tipn, he pointed out, would rest with the degree of public support it received.
